The Computation Institute is a groundbreaking, transdisciplinary joint initiative of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory dedicated to pushing the frontiers of knowledge through the application of cutting-edge computational science.

The Environmental Science Division (EVS) conducts basic and applied research and assessment that seeks to understand how environmental systems function, including both natural and human-managed systems, and how system components respond to various perturbations.

The opportunity for better drugs, a cleaner environment, higher- performance electronics, and an economically competitive nation lies in finding new and better ways to do things. It lies in the innovations that science enables. And scientists in nearly every field say that to expedite innovation, they need to view matter in more detail and in more conditions and time scales than today’s synchrotron X-ray technology allows.